User manual
Planning Your Application Program 
$aaSiCj5 
Name  Read counter Start/Stop 
Chapter 6 
Description  Requests the addressed counter/frequency module 
to indicate whether counters are active. 
Syntax $aaSiCj5(cr) 
$ is a delimiter character. 
aa (range 00-FF) represents the 2-character hexadeci- 
mal Modbus network address of the ADAM-5000/ 
TCP system. 
SiCj identifies the I/O slot i and the channel j of the 
module you want to set. 
5 is the command for reading counter Start/Stop. 
(cr) is the terminating character, carriage return (0Dh) 
Response !aas (cr) if the command is valid. 
?aa (cr) if an invalid operation was entered. There 
is no response if the module detects a syntax error 
or communication error or if the specified ad- dress 
does not exists. 
! delimiter character indicating a valid command was 
received. 
? delimiter character indicating the command was 
invalid. 
aa (range 00-FF) represents the 2-character hexadeci- 
mal Modbus network address of an ADAM-5000/ 
TCP system. 
s represents start/stop command. 
s=0 indicate stop counter. s=1 
indicate start counter. 
(cr) is the terminating character, carriage return (0Dh) 
ADAM-5000/TCP User’s Manual 
6-163 










